Improvement in clothes-pounders



a. A. SHELDUNl @L 1'. B. REYNOLDS. Clothes-Powders.

Patented Aug. 25,1874l `No4-54,524.y

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. SHELDON AND JOSEPH B. REYNOLDS, OF AUSTINVILLE, PENN-SYLVANIA; SAID SHELDON ASSIGNOR OF HIS RIGHT TO GEORGE B.

SHERMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTVHES-POUNDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,524, dated August25, 1874; application led May 29, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEO. A. SHELDON and J. B. REYNOLDS, of 'Austinvillain the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Washers; and we do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and eX- act descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to theletters ot' reference marked thereon, which form part of thisspecification.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a clotheswasher, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will nowproceed to describe vits construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, inwhich- Figure l is a bottom view of our clotheswasher, and Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical section of the same.

A represents a tube, of any suitable dimensions, which forms the handleof our clothes- The lower end of this tube is closed by a' concaveperforated plate, B, and protected by means of a wire guard, C. Aroundthe lower'end of the tube is secured a funnelshaped hood, D, which isbraced and strengthcned by means of a horizontal plate, a., as shownparticularly in Fig. 2. Inside of the tube or handle A is placed a rod,E, provided around its lower end with rubber or other suitable packingG, forming, as it were, a pum-pplunger. l

This washer is to be used in a tub or washer by placing the funnel orhood D over the clothes in the suds and working the plunger up and downto draw and force the water through the clothes, and it is to be changedfrom one place to another until the clothes are all washed. y

By the employment of this device there is no wear on the clothing, asthe washing is all done by drawing and forcing a circulation of water toand fro through the clothes.

The wire guard O prevents the perforations n the plate B frombecoming-clogged by the clothes.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the tubular handle A, provided with perforatedplate B at its lower end, and the surrounding funnel D, of the interiorplunger E G, all f substantially as and for the purposes herein setforth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we affix oursignatures `in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. SHELDON. JOSEPH B. REYNOLDS. Witnesses:

L. B. SLADE, WARREN SMITH.

